Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc., formerly Accelr8 Technology Corporation, is focused on developing and commercializing instrumentation for the rapid identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing of infectious pathogens. The Company focuses on the development of a rapid diagnostic platform, the BACcel system, intended for rapid diagnosis in life-threatening bacterial infections. The BACcel system applies its technology to eliminate bacterial culturing, thus eliminating the source of delay with testing methods. The Company's BACcel system uses bacteriological testing principles, but applies the Company's technology to adapt them to analyze live bacteria extracted directly from a patient specimen. The instrumentation uses automated digital microscopy to measure the responses of extracted live bacterial cells to various test conditions.